Beer-drinking minor at Butler dives into canal to escape police

6:58 PM,
Sep. 7, 2013

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A 19-year-old man jumped into the Central Canal to escape police after they spotted him with a beer on the Butler University campus Friday night.

The foot chase through the campus around 10:30 p.m. left two police officers injured.

Egan Montgomery, 19, Glen Ellyn, Ill., was preliminarily charged with felony battery, possession of alcohol by a minor and resisting law enforcement following the chase, according to a police report. ...